77-23-210 - Force used in executing warrant -- When notice of authority is required as a prerequisite. - Utah Statutes

77-23-210. Force used in executing warrant -- When notice of authority is requiredas a prerequisite.
When a search warrant has been issued authorizing entry into any building, room,conveyance, compartment, or other enclosure, the officer executing the warrant may use suchforce as is reasonably necessary to enter:
(1) if, after notice of the officer's authority and purpose, there is no response or theofficer is not admitted with reasonable promptness; or
(2) without notice of the officer's authority and purpose, if the magistrate issuing thewarrant directs in the warrant that the officer need not give notice.

Amended by Chapter 153, 2007 General Session